Pager Software
As of January 2018, the pager systems for Menlo Park and Berkeley are planned to be replaced by a sysyem sending SMS messages. As soon as that system is installed, it should be documented here!
Click here for a description of BDSN pager software.
Click here for a description of NCSN pager software.
New messaging starting 2018
Old paging devices were replaced by SMS msgs sent to personal cell phones
emails are still sent to individuals and group aliases.
There is a BSL wide distribution of these emag and email lists onto all hosts in the /usr/local/etc/msg dir.
In there you will find 3 files:
- rw-r–r–. 1 root root 8137 2024-05-01 13:24 emag-table.txt
- rw-r–r– 1 root root 815 2019-05-07 13:09 msgd.site.pl
- rw-r–r–. 1 root root 7526 2023-04-17 13:55 msg-table.txt
The msgd daemon should be running on the host:
perl /usr/local/sbin/msgd -a /var/spool/msgd/acct
This uses the lpd spooling system for message distribution.
There are two msg queues used: msg1 and msg2
To check if there are any stalled messages still in a queue:
lpq -P msg1 lpq -P msg2
To clear a queue of all jobs:
lprm -P <queue> -